Egypt’s population to reach 98 million next week: CAPMAS

Nourhan Elsebahy
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Egyptians mix road and market space in crowded road conditions in Cairo AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS

Egypt’s total population will reach 98 million next week, according to a statement issued  Monday by the state’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

The head of CAPMAS Abu Bakr El-Gendy said Egypt’s population inside the country will reach 90 million next week. Meanwhile, the number of Egyptians living abroad is 8 million, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ estimates.

CAPMAS noted that Cairo remains the most crowded governorate in Egypt, with 9.437 million people living there, followed by Giza governorate which has a population of 7.755 million people, and the Nile Delta’s Sharqeya governorate with 6.629 million people.

CAPMAS added that in Upper Egypt, the Minya governorate is considered the most populated governorate, with 5.603 million people.

The least crowded governorates in Egypt is the Red Sea with 371,098 people, CAPMAS said.

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Nourhan El-Sebahy is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. Just before joining DNE’s staff, she was working as a journalist at El-Watan newspaper “an Egyptian daily independent newspaper”. She holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She was awarded by Certificate of honor on the Fourth Scientific Day Celebration in 2013 and Graduate Student’s honor at AUC in 2012.
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